Paul’s theological
stion 1
Paul's theological message of the suffering of Jesus as a redemptive sacrifice for original sin offered salvation for those who believed, prayed and were baptized.
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Question 2
The Tribunes Tiberius Gracchus and Gaius Gracchus were murdered by the Senators of Rome because they attempted to undo the needed land reforms put in place by the Roman Senate.
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Question 3
Around the first century B.C.E. the slave population of Italy was negligible, probably only around 10% of the population, but they were treated so well, sometimes as family, that they never attempted to revolt against their owners.
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Question 4
By the end of the first century, Christian authority was claimed to derive from the bishops' status as miracle workers who roamed around converting pagans with numerous feats of unexplainable healing, bringing people back to life, and so on.
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Question 5
Octavian's power was supported by his huge wealth, the loyalty of the upper class and his control over the armies of Rome.
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Question 6
Roman emperors, acting in the role of tribunes to the people, brought them, free grain handouts, water-filled aqueducts, and theaters and Colosseum-style entertainments.
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Question 7
When Caesar crossed the Rubicon, he set in motion a civil war against the Roman forces of Pompey that would end with Caesar taking power in Rome.
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Question 8
Paul of Tarsus, a Roman citizen, saw Christianity as an entirely new Hellenistic, non-Jewish mystery religion that adapted well to Roman paternalism, and so denied that Christianity was in any sense a fulfillment of Judaism or of the Old Testament.
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Question 9
Romans considered Christians to be a dangerous and subversive cult because they worshiped a Jewish and therefore unpopular and suspicious foreign god p.125
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Question 10
About the the reign of the Antonines, it has been said that it was,'the period in the history of the world during which the human race was the most poor and miserable.'
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Question 11
Emperor Augustus felt that Rome's declining birth rate and corruption could be blamed on the bad influence of foreigners, especially the growing popularity of Greek homosexual practices.
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Question 12
The Roman imperial government was supported by a combination of taxes, rents, forced labor, military service, requisitions and outright extortion.
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Question 13
Official Roman religious cults were challenged in the first century C.E. by mystery cults that promised eternal life and a personal relationship with a god.
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Question 14
After the Roman conquests of the Mediterranean region, Roman wealth became concentrated in the hands of a few, the optimates.
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Question 15
The reason that Julius Caesar was assassinated was that he had previously killed the brother of Marcus Brutus who had spoken against his becoming pontifex maximus.
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Question 16
As the Christian church grew and became more organized, women, were excluded from positions of authority as the Christian community came increasingly to resemble the Roman patriarchal household.
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Question 17
Romans, by and large, were generally more interested in human behavior and character than they were in the sciences, though they supported the work of the Greek scientists of Alexandria.
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Question 18
Among the Hasidim of Jewish society in occupied Judea, the Pharisees and Zealots disagreed strongly over whether or not they should fight the Roman occupation.
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Question 19
Christianity began as a small Jewish sect based upon the martyrdom of its leader Joshua ben Joseph at the hands of the local Roman procurator.
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Question 20
Augustus' long rule ushered in a period of conflict in the empire known as the Bellum Romana in which Rome was constantly at war with some neighbor or another, draining the imperial coffers of gold and raising the price of wheat throughout the empire.
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